You're like a scene out of Love, Actually !

Haven't seen it, but it sounds like I should. I should add this happened ten years ago, so she wasn't ripping the film off.

And while I agree AD sounds strange with an American accent, JM's native accent really freaks me out.

Initially, hearing both JM's native accent and real age both shocked the bejeebus out of me.

JM sounds oddly like David Duchovny in his real accent.

Is David Duchonvny also a Californian?

From Jersey/NYC, I think.

Duchovny is east coast, and Gillian Anderson is general mix, since she spent much of her childhood in England and Minnesota. This is probably why a lot people just guess she's Canadian.

Is it the voice in his normal Cali accent that makes JM sound like DD? Like, not the accent so much?

I mean, do you now feel that you know what DD would sound like if he were being Faux Cockney?

JM's normal accent drives me nuts. He uses all these "yeah, yeahs" and "uhms" when he can't get his thoughts together, which is frequently. So then he takes off speaking a mile and minute with the yeah-yeah thrown in willy-nilly. As a result, he babbles. Makes him sound brainless, which he isn't. In Spikespeak, he's more deliberate about what he says, so it's slower and deeper. Very easy on the ears. Someone should tell him during his interviewss that TV is TV, you don't have to fill the silences as you do in radio. People will watch you twiddle your thumbs in silence if you make the thumb twiddling interesting looking. Also, it gives you time to think about what you say, so you don't babble.

Angel's replacements next season -- a Jeff Foxworthy comedy, and a Drew Carey improv-with-animation show.

Uh-huh. Bets on how long they last?

There is one good thing about Angel's cancellation. I'll never again have to watch an ad for other WB shows. If I can avoid Fox, now, I'll be an exceedingly happy woman.